Mechanical movement



PATENTED FEB. 2, 1904. 7

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0.1112132. MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

APPLICATION PILED OOT. 11. 1900.

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v No. 751,268. V PATENTED FEB. 2, 1904.

C. DIETZ.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 11. 1900.

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Patented February 2, 1904.-

PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD DIETZ, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENYHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 751,268, dated February 2, 1904.

Application filed October 11,1900. Serial No. 32,700. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD DIETZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Movements, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in mechanical movements.

One of its objects is to provide a simple and strong mechanical movement by means of which the driving-shaft may be turned continuously in one direction while the operative mandrel is reciprocated alternately in opposite directions through a full revolution.

Another object is to provide a reliableand durable mechanical movement to be turned by hand continuously in one direction while the operative mandrel is alternately reciprocated in opposite directions, whereby I am enabled to employ a balance-wheel to give regularity to the movement.

It further consists in certain details of form and combination, all of. which will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a top plan View of my movement with the gear-casing removed. Fig. 2 is a partial section through the same on line 2 z of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the segmental gear. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view taken on line o o of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the gear-casing.

I have shown my improved movement applied to a washing-machine, for which purpose it is eminently adapted.

A represents the receptacle for the clothes, having a hinged lid A, to which the frame B of the movement is secured.

C represents a hand-wheel the rim of which is preferably weighted to form a balance-wheel to give regularity to the movements of the mandrel. The hand-wheel is mounted upon a shaft C, to the opposite end of which is secured abeveled gear D, meshing with and driving a beveled gear E, which journals loosely upon the operative mandrel F.

G G represent two internal segmental gears formed upon the inner face of the beveled gear I}, the opposite ends of the segmental gear be- 5 O ing in different planes.

H represents a small spur-gear secured to the operative mandrelf by means of a setscrew H. v g

I and J represent transmitting spur-gears mounted upon stud-shafts I J. The gear J transmits motion from the upper portion of the segment direct to the gear H to rotate the operative mandrel inone direction, while the gear I is in a plane to take its motion from 0 the lower portion of the segment and transmit it through gear J to gear H, thereby reversing the direction of rotation in the operative shaft, which makes about one and onefourth revolution first in one direction and 5 then in the opposite direction, which causes the dasher L to agitate the clothes in the tub A, or the movement may be applied to any other purpose where a similar movement is desired and may be driven by belt or other 7 power applied to the shaft or to the segmental gear direct. The respective sections of the segmental gear are shown overlapping at one point and with a gap at another point. They are preferably so arranged in order that the reverse movement will commence immediately upon the opposite idler being freed from the preceding section of the gear. In other words, the overlapping is to continue the motion in opposite or reverse direction without any lost motion at all, the reversal of the gear occurring at the instant the space between the segments G and G is reached and said space being utilized to permit the revolution of the idlergear in the opposite direction to that 5 traversed by the gear which is transmitting motion. The segments are so arranged that at the instant the upper gear disengages from the upper segment the lower gear engages with the lower segment, leaving the uppergear to 9 revolve in the reverse direction as an idler until it engages with 1ts upper gear, when its movement will be reversed and 1t Wlll impart motion in the opposite direction, the lower T represents a detachable casing to cover. and protect the gears.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with a wheel having segmental gears in diflerent planes, an operative shaft, a driven gear on the operative shaft, and two idler-gears meshing with each other, and meshing with the respective segments in different planes and one of said transmittinggears meshing with the driven gear.

2. In a mechanical movement, a powerdriven wheel having two segmental gears in different planes, a driven gear, and two transmitting-gears meshing respectively with the segmental gears, and with each other, and one of said transmitting-gears driving the driven gear.

3. In a mechanical movement, a drivingshaft provided with a hand-wheel, a beveled gear on the opposite end of said shaft meshing with a beveled gear, said beveled gear provided with two internal segmental gears in different planes, a driven gear, jtwo transmittinggears meshing with each other, and the respective segmental gears, and one of said gears meshing with and driving the driven gear, whereby the driven gear is alternately revolved in opposite directions when power is applied to turn the driving-shaft continuously in one direction.

4:- In a mechanical movement, a wheel having two internal segmental gears in different planes, a driven gear located concentric with said segmental gears, and two transmittinggears, meshing with each other, and respectively with said segmental gears, and one of said transmitting-gears driving the driven gear.

5. The herein-described mechanical movement, consisting of the wheel, having the inner peripheral racks, a means for giving the said wheel a rotatable movement, the two pinions, the one meshing with the other, and adapted to' separately engage the two racks, whereby a reversible rotary movement is given to one of the said pinions.

6. The combination of a driven gear, a continuously-rotated segmental gear meshing intermittingly with said driven gear to drive it in one direction and another gear intermittingly engaged by said segmental gear and meshing with the first-mentioned gear to transmit motion to drive said first-mentioned gear in the reverse direction.

7. The combination of intermeshing gears and a segmental gear alternately engaging the said gears.

8. The combination of a wheel to be continuously revolved in either direction, a driven gear, the wheel provided with two gear-segments and means to connect the segment-wheel and driven gear to intermittingly revolve said driven gear in opposite directions.

9. The combination of a wheel to be continuously revolved in either direction, a driven gear, the wheel provided with two gear-segments, and gears alternately engaged by said segments and transmitting motion to the driven gear to intermittingly revolve it in opposite directions.

10. The combination with a wheel having a continuous toothed periphery and provided interiorly with two toothed segments, adriving-shaft, a pinion secured to said drivingshaft and engaging the toothed periphery of the wheel to rotate the latter continuously, of a driven shaft projecting into said wheel, and gearing between the segments and driven shaft and alternately propelled by said seg ments.

CONRAD DIETZ.

Witnesses JAMES M. RAMSEY, R. C. PHILLIPs. 

